[via]When I posted the video of two chatbots arguing and declaring their status as a unicorn, I thought we were still a long way off from a chatbot which could trick a large number of people into thinking it's human, thereby passing the "Turing Test" developed by awesome dude you should know Alan Turing.

The 2011 Loebner Prize Competition in Artificial Intelligence is taking place in a couple months, with prizes being awarded to chat programs able to convince two or more judges that they're talking to one of the human contestants.